Good comments, also, there is the option of simply interfacing mysql and
your scripts with mailman, which is really one of the better ways to send
mass emails, list serves pretty much have it down these days.
"mailman"? Not sure what this is. Do you have any web sites where I could
research t
An equal probability is that you're actually generating INDIVIDUAL
messages (one per recipient), rather than messages with a BCC: recipient
list, in which case, my advise would be to switch to BCC: addressing, but
if that isn't an option, look at a cascaded MTA queue (messages which
don't deliv
How many messages are we talking here?
Could be as many as 5,000 at one time.
Perhaps create a server side script, that sends the emails in chunks, then
sleeps a little, and sends another chunk.
I hadn't thought of that, I may have to try to write something like this
I would also try to un
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If SMTP is all you really want and win32 is your base, then it is freeware
and a rock solid option. Actually you will
At 22:22 2006-08-30 -0500, Philip Hallstrom wrote:
But some providers will block based on number of recipients per message...
so don't go crazy sending one message to 50,000 aol addresses, etc...
Which is why you'd have conditions for special-case domains, which I *DID*
point out in my post,
I would also try to unorder the email addresses, so that large groups of
yahoo and aol etc emails do not hit the outbound queue at the same time.
They tend to look down on that activity, and throttle you back, making it
take even longer to get your messages out.
You might put special-case condit
> You might put special-case conditons on specific domains, but actually,
> you're much better off ordering by domain because your server will end up
> sending _ONE_ message addressed to whatever number of recipients at that
> domain. If your list is truely massive, your MTA may be incapable of
>
At 18:32 2006-08-30 -0700, Scott Haneda wrote:
I would also try to unorder the email addresses, so that large groups of
yahoo and aol etc emails do not hit the outbound queue at the same time.
They tend to look down on that activity, and throttle you back, making it
take even longer to get your
well for our normal needs. We do not want to
> change to Microsoft's Exchange Server. I hear it's expensive, and difficult
> to set up and get working properly.
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows of any alternative mass e-mail options. I
> don't want to use servers
ot want to
change to Microsoft's Exchange Server. I hear it's expensive, and difficult
to set up and get working properly.
I was wondering if anyone knows of any alternative mass e-mail options. I
don't want to use servers that spammers use, because first, and foremost,
this is N
ot want to
change to Microsoft's Exchange Server. I hear it's expensive, and difficult
to set up and get working properly.
I was wondering if anyone knows of any alternative mass e-mail options. I
don't want to use servers that spammers use, because first, and foremost,
this is N
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